I'll be watching this bug report closely, because this a show-stopper for me.
I can fix it on my setup, but I don't feel like supporting this fix or these sort of intense changes to the default firefox.
Some notes:
- this "feels" like spyware/adware. The biggest (and almost only) selling point of linux in my community is lack of commercial 'annoyances'. I understand that needs differ and that canonical is trying to look at a way to make money. I am not condemning it. I'm just saying it would make the decision to choose Ubuntu much much harder. It would be very less sympathetic.
- opening default homepage on new tabs is fine. Although, if this is really about improving the experience, I would vote for a chrome-like start-tab: with the favorite sites listed. I've never really quite understood why I have two search fields when I launch firefox. One in the browser, one in the top-right.
- If you want to make money from advertisement, the default homepage would be the place where it's non-obtrusive. Show my favorite sites and based on that show a google-ads-box on the right or something. Show them in a place where I click around when i'm bored, not when I am trying to get work done.
- urlbar should be google-i-feel-lucky. That is the killer feature of firefox and chrome. Don't mess with that please. If we want to search, we will use the search box. Everybody that I know that uses firefox loves that part more than anything.
- the default search should not contain MORE ads than google does by default. If that's not possible without making money on it: be creative and find another way. (Like putting the ads on my default homepage together with my most visisted sites and most recently visited sites .. chrome style)
- the default search should not have less functionality or break integration with the rest of google. If the default search is going to be different from a normal google search, dont' call it google, don't use the google icon. Just add a 'ubuntu-search' with an ubuntu logo and make the default. That way we can still choose to use google easily, yet we can also choose to support Canonical.
I'll be watching this bug report closely, because this a show-stopper for me.
I can fix it on my setup, but I don't feel like supporting this fix or these sort of intense changes to the default firefox.
Some notes:
- this "feels" like spyware/adware. The biggest (and almost only) selling point of linux in my community is lack of commercial 'annoyances'. I understand that needs differ and that canonical is trying to look at a way to make money. I am not condemning it. I'm just saying it would make the decision to choose Ubuntu much much harder. It would be very less sympathetic.
- opening default homepage on new tabs is fine. Although, if this is really about improving the experience, I would vote for a chrome-like start-tab: with the favorite sites listed. I've never really quite understood why I have two search fields when I launch firefox. One in the browser, one in the top-right.
- If you want to make money from advertisement, the default homepage would be the place where it's non-obtrusive. Show my favorite sites and based on that show a google-ads-box on the right or something. Show them in a place where I click around when i'm bored, not when I am trying to get work done.
- urlbar should be google- i-feel- lucky. That is the killer feature of firefox and chrome. Don't mess with that please. If we want to search, we will use the search box. Everybody that I know that uses firefox loves that part more than anything.
- the default search should not contain MORE ads than google does by default. If that's not possible without making money on it: be creative and find another way. (Like putting the ads on my default homepage together with my most visisted sites and most recently visited sites .. chrome style)
- the default search should not have less functionality or break integration with the rest of google. If the default search is going to be different from a normal google search, dont' call it google, don't use the google icon. Just add a 'ubuntu-search' with an ubuntu logo and make the default. That way we can still choose to use google easily, yet we can also choose to support Canonical.